Before Sunset

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1837 to 1909

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   No good thing of thee and me?
   Laughs at love in me and thee;
There is nothing that will stay,
One whole hour of amorous breath,
   Hours the sun has spared to smite,
Shall these hours run down and say
   Time shall die, and love shall be
   There are all things soft to sight;
In the wayside and the way,
   On the hither side of night,
Time that made us and will slay
Lord as time was over death.
In the lower lands of day
   Lighted shade and shadowy light
Flowers the rain has left to play.
   But if here the flowers may see